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kane_magus) wrote2023-09-27 12:41 pm
kane_magus) wrote2023-09-27 12:41 pm
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"Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'"
"And doesn't think a recession will stop people spending money on games."
Come on, modern video game industry crash.
C'moooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
Seriously, I am so fucking sick and tired of that banal, worse-than-worthless "oh back in the old days we used to pay hundreds of dollars for video games (if you account for disgusting, ridiculous inflation) so really it's an absolute steal that new video games today 'only' cost $60-$100-plus[1] if you think about it actually" argument that keeps getting trotted out like some diseased, malformed show pony at least once every year or more.
Especially when "back in the old days" they had to pay for physical cartridges/discs, packaging, manuals, and other supplementary physical material, whereas today, they're just slapping some code up on Steam or GOG or their own proprietary online shops or whatever (and I don't give a flying fuck if it's code that "thousands of people spent billions of hours working on," it's still just fucking code).
Well, Capcom can charge whatever the fuck they want if they really feel the "need" to do so, I suppose, but I sure as flying fuck ain't paying it and haven't been paying it for over a decade now.
[1] - Which, of course, does not include any additional nickeling-and-diming-and-dollaring-and-"price-of-an-entire-full-ass-game-all-on-its-own"-ing microtransactions/DLC that is probably also involved after the initial too expensive purchase of the game itself, given that it's the goddamn modern video game industry after all. (And yet, morons stupidly buy that shit for that price, so why wouldn't they sell that shit for that price?)
Come on, modern video game industry crash.
C'moooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
Seriously, I am so fucking sick and tired of that banal, worse-than-worthless "oh back in the old days we used to pay hundreds of dollars for video games (if you account for disgusting, ridiculous inflation) so really it's an absolute steal that new video games today 'only' cost $60-$100-plus[1] if you think about it actually" argument that keeps getting trotted out like some diseased, malformed show pony at least once every year or more.
Especially when "back in the old days" they had to pay for physical cartridges/discs, packaging, manuals, and other supplementary physical material, whereas today, they're just slapping some code up on Steam or GOG or their own proprietary online shops or whatever (and I don't give a flying fuck if it's code that "thousands of people spent billions of hours working on," it's still just fucking code).
Well, Capcom can charge whatever the fuck they want if they really feel the "need" to do so, I suppose, but I sure as flying fuck ain't paying it and haven't been paying it for over a decade now.
[1] - Which, of course, does not include any additional nickeling-and-diming-and-dollaring-and-"price-of-an-entire-full-ass-game-all-on-its-own"-ing microtransactions/DLC that is probably also involved after the initial too expensive purchase of the game itself, given that it's the goddamn modern video game industry after all. (And yet, morons stupidly buy that shit for that price, so why wouldn't they sell that shit for that price?)
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The only Capcom game that I might be willing to pay more than $5-$10 these days (though still certainly not $70 or whatever the fuck) is Dragon's Dogma 2. And that is only if it isn't infested with Denuvo (which you just know it will be). Street Fighter 6 used to be on that very short list, too, but... well... Denvuo infection and all. *weary sigh*